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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7830207" data-attributes="member: 996"> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The surge cost in 4e was presumably to balance with rituals, since they could have a high cost in components or residuum while practices didn't, and wealth/level was a limiting resource, but, in 5e, rituals are free or cheap to cast, and there's no wealth/level to balance against, anyway.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Skills can hypothetically do a lot "virtually impossible," indeed but not practically so.  Thus practices could take things that'd be out of bounds for skills or impractically difficult, and make them possible or practical to attempt without actually taking away from the skill - which'd still be involved, obviously</li> </ul></blockquote>